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A show on BBC (sorry, I forget the name) told about a study of bodies retrieved from the crypt of a church for reburial. The bodies were examined, and since it was possible to provide the names and dates for each, the ages of the people were known. Medical examiners were asked to estimate the ages, without knowing what they were. The resulting estimates was fairly uniformly ten years shy of the facts. For the middle ages, the implication is that the estimated age expectancy of the middle ages is that it would have been estimated as too low by several years if the estimate is based on archeology.
I went into history and looked at 20 people whose ages could be calculated or estimated, who had not been professional soldiers or members of the high nobility, and who came from a mix of backgrounds. It turns out that they died with an average age of 64. Since they had all achieved the age of about 40, this would suggest that the life expectancy at 40 might have been to the mid sixties.
Gerson Bahringer
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